California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Castle Rock in Santa Monica, looking northwest toward Topanga Canyon, ca.1928

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Castle Rock in Santa Monica, looking northwest toward Topanga Canyon, ca.1928

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Photograph of Castle Rock in Santa Monica, looking northwest toward Topanga Canyon, ca.1928. The large conical rock is at center. At is base is a long sandy beach on which small waves are breaking and several people are playing. The Coast Highway is at right and winds its way along the shoreline, coming close to the back of Castle Rock. Several early-model automobiles are parked along the shoulders of the road. The right side of the road is bordered by steep hills. On the hillside at right is the very large Villa Leon, completed in 1928.

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Title Castle Rock in Santa Monica, looking northwest toward Topanga Canyon, ca.1928

Subject Beaches (lcsh), Los Angeles City -- Pacific Palisades -- Castle Rock (file heading), Roads (lcsh), roadways (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), Pacific Coast Highway (roadway), Pacific Palisades (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1928

Type images

Format 2 photographs : photonegative, transparency, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), negatives (photographic) (aat), photographs (aat), transparencies (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1928

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m1979

Identifier 11498 (accession number), CHS-11498 (call number), CHS-11498 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-2826 (legacy record id), chs-m1979 (legacy record id), USC-1-1-1-2035 (legacy record id), 1-54- (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 2826

Unique identifier UC116705

Legacy Identifier CHS-11498.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.2 in × 16.4 in at 300dpi
58.9 cm × 41.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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